23 has always been something I've remembered since my sec sch days. The 1st time i took notice of it was when i bought my 1st ever sony discman. In those days where center parting was cool, (<---haha) sony discman was like the ipod touch or something. Super state of the art, great sound, comes with a nice remote control and the discman is super slim.
I bought the discman at that time totally out of the fact that it's cool and nice, but I actually have no use for it (<---haha dumb). So to make it useful, I bought afew CDs to listen to. One techno albumb and one rock albumb. I fell in love with the rock one (techno's dumb) and that CD is by Blink 182, better known as "that albumb which has the song all the small things". One of my favourite song is "what's my age again".
The song is kinda about the singer who's 23 and not acting like his age. Still being stupid still doing crap. It has a line saying "nobody likes you when you're 23". I was only 15 back then, and the age 23 seems like a far away thing. Since then I always wondered, what would my life be like when I become 23.
I thought about how CNY is gonna be like, how my relatives are gonna be like when they grow up. Also wondering if my Vdae would be a special one, whether I'll be working or having school holidays during june, how to celebrate a 23th bdae, who I'll be with counting down to christmas, and what kinda end of year count down would I choose to have at 23.
Now 23 is no longer just some random thought. It has become a reality.
Seems like 23 is just another year in my life. It's black and white. I guess it'll be interesting to center all my posts this year (If I'm still gonna blog) around the magic number 23.
CNY-
Rumoured to be the legendary CNY, with the holidays joining up with the weekends to form up a super long weekend, this year's CNY is rather boring for me.
My whole family's overseas, and I didn't get to visit much relatives. The least ang pows I've collected this year, not even making up to be $120. Didn't really get to catch up much with my relatives. Didn't crave for any new yr goodies too. Relatives of my age just gets more dull and busy. Most of them are working and attached, getting stuck in the monotonous patterns and routine of their own confined lives.
The talks and jokes about our childhood still happens, but everything seemed to have lost its sparkle. Still remember last time we would steal new year goodies in our pockets, trying to pretend that we didn't receive our ang pows so that our aunties would give us another one. Being amazed by the new packet drinks and new flavours that we would find during new year visits. Catching at the playground, playing heart attack with gambling cards. The highlight- Playing fireworks and pop pops at night!
All those things are already a past. Now that I revisit CNY as a 23 years old guy, the people are the same, and everything remains. But there's just no more sparkle.
Just as I'm blogging, I also realised that today's Vdae. I'll probably blog about that on another day.
1:35 PM
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Dun understand why u're like this. Always think u're right in your own way, but never seeing the bigger world around you. Always self contained in yr thoughts without exploring those of others.
I think everyone's right about u. I used to disagree with them, but now I know what they mean. U're just stubborn.
